Word: chewbacca
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...Lucas and some partners share the rest) stands to gain $30 million. Add in Fox's share of cult merchandise already inspired by the film -model spaceships, T shirts, 640,000 sound-track record albums, figurines of the movie's fantastic characters, such as Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca-and the company stands to stash away a lot of cash. On top of that. Fox has in distribution several other movies that are hot at the box office, including The Other Side of Midnight and Silver Streak...
...Chewbacca (he doesn't), the 8-ft.-tall wookie. A lithe and elegant simian, Chewie is co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, the souped-up space freighter that takes the intrepid rebels to their battle with the dread Death Star. Like Artoo Detoo, Chewie is voluble without actually being able to talk. In a voice that is somewhere between a hoarse lion's roar and the braying of an outraged donkey, he bullies little Artoo or retreats, in moments of danger, to a position of forthright cowardice. Inside the fur is Peter Mayhew, a porter at London...